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The Maharashtra government has decided to install a silent observer device in all the sonography units in the state to stop sex determination and the subsequent female infanticide. Sex determination of a foetus is possible only with the help of sonography machine. As per the government plan, the device will be embedded in each machine and will collect data about every sonography that has occurred on the machine. The data can then be retrieved later.
The installation of silent observer device will go a long way in stopping the practice of sex determination in clinics and make them answerable. There are 7,373 sonography centres in the state. As per the Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, it is mandatory for sonography centres to keep the details of each and every sonography that is conducted. A government official then looks at the record every three months.
The device will not only bring all sonography centres online, but it will also make possible the daily online reporting of sonography tests of all pregnant women across the state. The generated data can then be used to take legal action against the culprit doctors and parents and will help in stopping the malpractice of identifying the gender of the foetus.
Sex ratio in the state is grim and the government is apparently alarmed over the diminishing sex ratio in the state. The sex ratio of the state is 922 females per 1000 males and the sex ratio in Mumbai, according to the 2001 census, is 774 females per 1,000 males and 826 in the suburbs. In Greater Mumbai on the whole the ratio is 811 females per 1000 males.
In yet another action on this front, the state government has decided to constitute flying squads to raid various sonography centres across the state in a bid to curb sex determination tests. The squad will work on the lines of the Income Tax Department and will go on raids four times a month.
As the records are kept in paper form and are the responsibility of lab owners themselves, there is scope for fudging facts. But, if implemented in letter and spirit, the new device will be act as a deterrent against sex detection tests which are prevalent in some parts of the country where the birth of a girl child is frowned upon with displeasure.
